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NTSB CAROL · Event

Event DEN75DTE62

1975-04-12 CRAIG, Colorado, United States None 1 aircraft Status: Completed

Registry · N1169W

FAA Aircraft Registry record.

Make / Model

BELL 47G-3B-1

Year of manufacture

1966 · 9 years old at event

TCDS

2H3 · SCOTT'S-BELL 47 INC

Engine

AMA/EXPR UNKNOWN ENG

Seats / Engines

3 seats · 1 engine

Last airworthiness date

19980810

ADS-B equipped

Yes — Mode-S A04625

Registrant of record

TWO WISE GUYS AVIATION LLC

Source: FAA Aircraft Registry (releasable master file).

Aircraft involved

N1169W Bell 47G3B1 None

Historical record (pre-1982)

NTSB recorded this accident in the pre-1982 coded-field schema — structured fields rather than free-text narrative. Decoded codes use established NTSB single-letter taxonomies; cause factors remain verbatim pending the Form 6120.4 codebook lookup.

Aircraft

BELL 47G3B1 · N1169W

Damage

Substantial

Craft type

Balloon

Classification

Accident

Light condition

Dawn

Weather

VMC

Phase of flight

EB

Operator type

E

Kind of flying

CI

Weather at impact

Sky

CLEAR

Temp

35° F

Aircraft history

Serial number

000000002948

Total time

3,367 hrs

Pilot

Certificate

Commercial

Total hours

2,778

Age

28

Investigator remarks

MIXT CTL LINKAGE CAME LOOSE ABT 20FT AGL.

Cause factors

74/C/I1 C
POWERPLANT MIXTURE CONTROL ASSEMBLIES Cause
88/C/29 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS IMPROPERLY SECURED Cause
88/C/BM C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS DISCONNECTED Cause
88/C/96 C
MISCELLANEOUS ACTS,CONDITIONS FUEL STARVATION Cause
68/C/D6 C
PERSONNEL INADEQUATE MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION Cause

Decoded against the NTSB Form 6120.4 cause-factor codebook (ct_Pre1982 table). Each row shows the raw triplet, modifier (Cause / Factor / etc.), category, and specific code.

Source: NTSB pre-1982 historical archive. Docket 3 0901. Source file NTSB_1975_3_0901.txt. Modern CAROL record on data.ntsb.gov ↗.

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